Poll: 27 percent OK on U.S. direction

Barely more than a quarter of Americans are satisfied with the way the country is going, though Democrats are significantly more content than Republicans are, a new poll says.

According to a Gallup survey out Monday, 27 percent of Americans are satisfied with “the way things are going in the United States today,” while 72 percent are dissatisfied. That’s still a slight uptick in satisfaction: in January, 25 percent of Americans said they were satisfied; in December, that figure was 23 percent, Gallup said.

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Monday’s numbers break down sharply along partisan lines: 47 percent of Democrats say they are satisfied with the direction of the country, up from 39 percent last month, while only 9 percent of Republicans say the same.

The poll of 1,015 adults was conducted Feb. 7-10 and the total sample has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4 percentage points.